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- Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challengebegins today with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time!| Lit Hub
- Thomas Levenson pushes back against anti-vaxxer arguments: “Microbial pathogens don’t participate in human philosophical disputation—and once they lodge inside the body of someone who chooses not to vaccinate they can and do spread where they will.” | Lit Hub Politics
- What’s a multispecies map? A cartographical innovation that helps us appreciate the natural world. | Lit Hub Nature
- “The Bidens seem stuck in a version of America that does not exist and perhaps never did.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “The people most often kept outside publishing’s institutions should help shape its future.” We’d like to introduce you to the Minneapolis-based Lost Kite Editions. | Lit Hub Book News
- Maris Kreizman shares her picks for best books of the year (so far). | Lit Hub Criticism
- This week on the podcast PASSAGES: On Morrison, Namwali Serpell and Vinson Cunningham discuss Toni Morrison’s Beloved. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Don’t know what to write? Get a dog. | Lit Hub Craft
- The long and influential history of Parmigiano Reggiano, a culinary icon. | Lit Hub Food
- The remarkable life and times of George Forster, eighteenth century naturalist. | Lit Hub Biography
- “Yoon and his wife are the first to arrive. My wife leads them to the living room. I’d been standing by the balcony window, watching the dark sky dump snow.” Read “A Table for Six” from Son Bo-Mi’s Swell, translated by Janet Hong. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “‘I always thought he would live / to a great age. He did not.’” Alan Jacobs on W.H. Auden and James Schuyler, in life and literature. | The Hedgehog Review
- People really, really hated the film adaptation of The Color Purple when it first came out. Nadira Goffe digs into what’s happened since. | Slate
- On auditing the Archbishop of Canterbury’s library. | NYRB
- “In their rush to computerize, American companies inaugurated a race to the bottom, paying workers ever lower wages to ensure their computers would bring a return on investment.” Considering the human labor behind the digital revolution. | The Baffler
- From 19th-century novels to contemporary thrillers, Ivan Kreilkamp surveys Britain’s invasion fiction. | JSTOR Daily
- Frank M. Young examines a history of consumerism and fad publishing in comics. | The Comics Journal
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